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'M. B. HAMMOND.

HAIR ROLL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 29,1908.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIcE.

MYRON B. HAMMOND, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

HAIR-ROLL.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MYRON B. HAMMOND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Rolls and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain improvements in hair rolls, such as are now commonly worn by women for the purpose of dressing the hair in such manner over the roll as to give a pompadour effect, and has for its object to do away with all independent devices such as have been heretofore attached to the roll for the purpose of engaging the latter with the hair or scalp in order to prevent displacement of the roll, and with this end in view my invention consists in the details of arrangement and construction hereinafter fully described and then particularly ointed out in the claims which conclude t is description.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is an elevation illustrating my improved hair roll-Fig. 2 a section at the line x, x, of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a similar section but showing a slight modification of my improvement.

Similar numbers of reference denote like parts in the several figures of the drawing.

My improvement relates to that class of hair rolls which are made from braided fine wire of a resilient nature, the roll in completed form possessing the requisite shape and fullness.

Heretofore, in hair rolls of this description, various contrivances have been attached directly to the roll so that when the roll is in position on the head of the wearer such contrivances will engage the hair or scalp and hold the roll as against accidental displacement, but such contrivances not only increase the weight of the roll but also detract from the ready distention and contraction thereof, which disadvantages are fully overcome by my present improvement.

1 is the main body of the roll whose extremities are preferably securedtogether by means of any suitable cli 2, the roll being applied by simply distending it until it seats against the head of the wearer.

3 is a rib formed on the inner or seating Surface of the body 1 and projecting there- Speeification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 29, 1908.

Patented Dec. 15, 1908.

Serial No. 435,838.

from, this rib being preferably formed by bending or pinching the braided wire in any suitable and ordinary manner. I prefer to locate this rib at one side of the seating surface of the roll, that is to say, the inner surface which rests against the head of the wearer, so that when the roll is in position said rib will resist any tendency on the part of the roll to lift, but of course I do not wish to be limited in this respect since the rib can be located at any part of the seating surface of the roll, as for instance, in the middle of said surface, as shown at 4 in the modification illustrated at Fig. 3. Hair rolls of this description which are distended in order to apply them to the wearers head are apt to work upwardly owing to the fact that they have a tendency to assume their normal or contracted state, and therefore it becomes necessary to provide some means for holding the roll in position on the wearers head, and my improvement is peculiarly adapted for this purpose without interfering in the slightest degree with the free distention and contraction of the body of the roll.

When my improved roll is distended and applied to the wearers head, the numerous projections formed by the bent wires that constitute the rib Will seat themselves through the hair against the scalp after the manner of the teeth of a comb, and as the meshes of the body of the roll contract around the head, said projections will be drawn closely together so as to pinch or embrace the hair, and the tendency of the roll to work upwardly is resisted by said projections.

While I have shown in the drawing that form of hair roll which is intended to entirely surround the head, nevertheless my improvement is equally applicable to the construction of the shorter braided wire rolls surlzh as are worn at the front or side portions on y.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a hair roll having a braided wire body, hair en aging means projecting from said body and ormed integral with the latter.

2. A hair roll having a braided Wire body from whose surface extends a projection formed integral with said body.

3. In a hair roll having a braided wire body of the required fullness, hair engaging means consisting of a rib extending from the surface of said body and formed integral In testimony whereof I aHiX my signature With the latter. in presence of two Witnesses.

4. A hair roll comprising a braided Wire MYRON B HAMMOND body and hair engaging projections formed 5 integral With said body and located at that Witnesses:

part of the latter which comes in contact F. W. SMITH, J12,

with the head of the wearer. M. T. LONGDEN. 

